Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
